{"id":1108,"date":"2025-10-02T04:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/moderation-in-all-things-but\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:43","slug":"moderation-in-all-things-but","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/moderation-in-all-things-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderation In All Things But"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Moderation in all Things, but\u2026\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/6334\/8379\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tModeration in all Things, but\u2026<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/register-richard\/\">Richard Register<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t16 June 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">I used to joke about my unusual life, being a sculptor, environmental activist, development politician. I lived in a mountain village in New Mexico at 9,000 feet (back to the land!), in a studio storefront in Venice, California (loved the art scene), at Paolo Soleri\u2019s experimental town, Arcosanti, Arizona (to reshape cities around the world). Enjoyed enough drugs, sex and rock n roll that Bob Dylan could never accuse me of letting someone else get my kicks for me. (Met him, Joan Baez and Jim Morrison along the way.) I\u2019m traveling all over the world these days to give speeches on eco-cities so we don\u2019t wreck the planet, trying thereby to get beyond jet fuel hypocrisy to better than balanced karma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">To the idea of being a little excessive or immoderate in my desire for experience, I used to say \u201cModeration in all things\u2026 but\u2026 all things!\u201d (Which maybe is its own form of immoderate behavior, which is what was moderately funny.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">But recently I\u2019ve been thinking moderation in all things is a pretty good idea. For example capitalism, where not rapacious, and socialism where much is shared but enough retained for personal creativity and reasonable happy options is retained privately, aren\u2019t so bad. The other animals and the plants would look at people and say, \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between Communism and Capitalism anyway? They both tear our mountains down for the minerals, strip our hills of trees, kill and eat us or replace us with easier and fatter things to kill and eat. They both overexploit as fast as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Then there\u2019s the fact that standard old ideas, moderate ideas like graduated income tax, as compared with throwing out the baby with the bathwater, chucking the whole thing and trying to start over\u2026 In other words reform rather than revolution is pretty good. And a little conventional honest democracy is damn good. We have a lot to work with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">The idea that things have to be polarized and hostile is very bad for us: Communism vs. Capitalism and vice versa unto death of one or the other (when both have positive points), for example. And the old notion that we should not live so excessively on borrowing and save a little more sounds sound. In fact you can exploit nature moderately as all animals and plants exploit their environment and each other, but they respect limits we\u2019ve immoderately violated. So\u2026 moderation is a pretty good idea in its own right. 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